In a live chat with The Guardian on Monday, Snowden suggested that he believed all government spying was wrong.

"When NSA makes a technical mistake during an exploitation operation, critical systems crash. Congress hasn't declared war on the countries — the majority of them are our allies — but without asking for public permission, NSA is running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent people," Snowden wrote.

"And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a country we're not even fighting? So we can potentially reveal a potential terrorist with the potential to kill fewer Americans than our own Police? No, the public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the 'consent of the governed' is meaningless."

Not a lot of people were surprised at the basic fact that U.S. agents were spying on Russia. That's what countries do.

A new CNN/ORC poll released Monday showed, however, that the majority of the American public has soured on his actions. The poll found that 52 percent disapproved of Snowden's actions in leaking the classified information, compared with 44 percent who approve. According to the poll, 54 percent said that the U.S. should attempt to extradite Snowden and prosecute him for releasing the information.